OvertureMaps / OvertureMaps/schema

Place operating_status and confidence schema descriptions are inaccurate

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Description

Description

The schema description for operating_status and confidence currently says:

https://github.com/OvertureMaps/schema/blob/283441d1b0620d085af0d0036e2db008467f2ba3/packages/overture-schema-places-theme/src/overture/schema/places/place.py#L220-L221

https://github.com/OvertureMaps/schema/blob/283441d1b0620d085af0d0036e2db008467f2ba3/packages/overture-schema-places-theme/src/overture/schema/places/place.py#L267-L269

Similarly, the schema definition for confidence says:

Places with operating_status set to 'closed' will have a confidence score of 0.

https://github.com/OvertureMaps/schema/blob/283441d1b0620d085af0d0036e2db008467f2ba3/schema/places/place.yaml#L82-L83

As far as I know, we don't have a mechanism that sets the operating status to "permanently_closed" when the confidence is 0, nor vice versa. Most feeds do not provide an operating status anyway, but for RenderSEO, for example, the logic is decoupled (at least during ingest):

Furthermore, I thought we had decided to decouple the interpretation of confidence from operating status. In other words, confidence only indicates whether a place record exists or is junk.

Proposed change

Remove the mentions of the coupling between operating_status and confidence in the places schema description and definition.

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